From: jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk (Jonathan Larmour)
To: brendan@dgs.monash.edu.au
Cc: binutils <binutils@sourceware.cygnus.com>,
Dan Malek <dmalek@jlc.net>,
Magnus Damm <eramdam@kieray1.p.y.ki.era.ericsson.se>,
gdb <gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: objdump or gdb to force a section to load ?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 00:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199906171606.RAA15562@peshwari.cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37685993.EB50E446@dgs.monash.edu.au>
In article < 37685993.EB50E446@dgs.monash.edu.au > you write:
>I sent this a while ago and got no response. I'm resending it just in case
>it got lost.
All of 24 hours before. Perhaps you need to be more patient.
>> I have a linux kernel compiled for a mpc860 target and am trying to get
>> it to run by downloading it into memory using a background debugger
>> (BDM). The boot code gets to the point where it trys to uncompress the
>> kernel but fails because the image isn't loaded into memory (only .text,
>> .rodata and .data are loaded). I tried using objcopy to set the "image"
>> section to "load" but it does not seem to work. How can I get gdb to
>> load the image section (either using a gdb command or binutils) ?
If it isn't marked as loadable, then you probably can't. It hasn't even got
an address for it to be loaded into. If it is to be loaded then it is the
build process (using the linker script) that has to make it loadable.
Perhaps an easier approach would be to use an uncompressed kernel rather than
a zImage.
A ppc-linux list may be able to give more specific advice about why the
linker scripts are the way they are.
Jifl
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-01 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-01 0:00 Using objdump to force a section to load with gdb Brendan Simon
1999-07-01 0:00 ` objdump or gdb to force a section to load ? Brendan Simon
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Jonathan Larmour [this message]
[not found] ` <376981EF.BE10D7C8@dgs.monash.edu.au>
[not found] ` <37699391.2CF83050@cygnus.co.uk>
1999-07-01 0:00 ` SOLVED: " Brendan Simon
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Using objdump to force a section to load with gdb Ian Lance Taylor
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Brendan Simon
1999-07-01 0:00 ` Ian Lance Taylor
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